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When Apple launched its Healthkit you could see from their language they wanted to impress upon the rest of us just what an achievement it was:
'...It just might be the beginning of a health revolution'. While there is no doubt in our mind that health apps are way more valuable than most
people realize (even if they cover really basic measures, such as the number of steps per day, etc), their language reflect some doubts as well.

America has reached a level of insanity where we now have the fox guarding the hen coop. Honestly the hens need to rise up and guard their own coop - hens
guarding hens. Just over the past few months we have seen 100 Billion dollars of consolidation in the healthcare industry creating THREE colossal healthcare
insurance companies insuring just about every American and not a word against such move. The foxes have silenced the hens...

There is a prevalent opinion that the current healthcare system is so malleable as to be impossible to change; it can adapt to anything and it will never change; just like water, it takes whatever shape the environment imposes. At CashDoctor.com we think the analogy is faulty.

Why is it that we are discussing about healthcare mostly in terms of medicine? Ok, true, since the term 'obesity pandemic' was coined we are also
talking about diet as a major contributor to population healthcare. But if diet is part of the equation isn’t is reasonable to expect that other
factors will be involved as well?

A couple of days ago, Heather Caspi published a post in HealthcareDive.com entitled 'The mystery of the disappearing PPO plans'. We completely agree
that the problems she points out are glaring. We do not think, however, there is any mystery in the PPO plans failure.

It is in the nature of things that sometimes small changes can start up momentous changes. In the physical world there is, perhaps, no better analogue than snow avalanches. In the healthcare world of today the smartphone will generate the same effect. In fact, we are already passed the snowball stage.

Above you can see a quote we "pilfered" from one of the more recent posts by Peter Diamandis "The 3 Major Industries AI and Big Data Will Reshape
This Decade". Why we recommend the post? As usual with Diamandis, it makes for an interesting and stimulating reading.